The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age /

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Throughout much of the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly on the core area of the fur trade in Canada. Its products were the object of intense competition among merchants on two continents - in Leipzig, New York, London, Winnipeg, St Louis, and Montreal. But in 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ray, Arthur (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Fur trade > Canada, Northern > History.
Indians of North America > Canada > Economic conditions.
HISTORY / Canada / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Does the fur trade have a future?
  • 2. Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885
  • 3. The fur trade in transition, 1886-1913
  • 4. The turning point: the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade
  • 5. The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945
  • 6. The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s
  • 7. Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945
  • 8. The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945
  • 9. The decline of the old order
  • NOTES
  • APPENDIX Figure references and data notes
  • Picture credits
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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